How to soup a browser response - html

Question

I've got a program that sends a lot of requests to a website using RoboBrowser and gets the answers, but now I need to filter these answers to only the ones that don't have this string " Case Status Not Available " I tried to use beautifulsoup for it, but it is returning an error.
Here's the code so far:
import shlex
import subprocess
import os
import platform
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
import csv
import pickle
import requests
from robobrowser import RoboBrowser
def rename_files():
file_list = os.listdir(r"C:\\PROJECT\\pdfs")
print(file_list)
saved_path = os.getcwd()
print('Current working directory is '+saved_path)
os.chdir(r'C:\\PROJECT\\pdfs')
for file_name in file_list:
os.rename(file_name, file_name.translate(None, " "))
os.chdir(saved_path)
rename_files()
def run(command):
if platform.system() != 'Windows':
args = shlex.split(command)
else:
args = command
s = subprocess.Popen(args,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
output, errors = s.communicate()
return s.returncode == 0, output, errors
# Change this to your PDF file base directory
base_directory = 'C:\\PROJECT\\pdfs'
if not os.path.isdir(base_directory):
print "%s is not a directory" % base_directory
exit(1)
# Change this to your pdf2htmlEX executable location
bin_path = 'C:\\Python27\\pdfminer-20140328\\tools\\pdf2txt.py'
if not os.path.isfile(bin_path):
print "Could not find %s" % bin_path
exit(1)
for dir_path, dir_name_list, file_name_list in os.walk(base_directory):
for file_name in file_name_list:
# If this is not a PDF file
if not file_name.endswith('.pdf'):
# Skip it
continue
file_path = os.path.join(dir_path, file_name)
# Convert your PDF to HTML here
args = (bin_path, file_name, file_path)
success, output, errors = run("python %s -o %s.html %s " %args)
if not success:
print "Could not convert %s to HTML" % file_path
print "%s" % errors
htmls_path = 'C:\\PROJECT'
with open ('score.csv', 'w') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
for dir_path, dir_name_list, file_name_list in os.walk(htmls_path):
for file_name in file_name_list:
if not file_name.endswith('.html'):
continue
with open(file_name) as markup:
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup.read())
text = soup.get_text()
match = re.findall("PA/(\S*)", text)#To remove the names that appear, just remove the last (\S*), to add them is just add the (\S*), before it there was a \s*
print(match)
writer.writerow(match)
for item in match:
data = item.split('/')
case_number = data[0]
case_year = data[1]
browser = RoboBrowser()
browser.open('http://www.pa.org.mt/page.aspx?n=63C70E73&CaseType=PA')
form = browser.get_forms()[0] # Get the first form on the page
form['ctl00$PageContent$ContentControl$ctl00$txtCaseNo'].value = case_number
form['ctl00$PageContent$ContentControl$ctl00$txtCaseYear'].value = case_year
browser.submit_form(form, submit=form['ctl00$PageContent$ContentControl$ctl00$btnSubmit'])
# Use BeautifulSoup to parse this data
print(browser.response.text)
souptwo = BeautifulSoup(browser.response.text)
texttwo = soup.get_text()
matchtwo = soup.findall('<td class="fieldData">Case Status Not Available</TD>')
if not matchtwo:
soupthree = BeautifulSoup(browser.response.text)
print soupthree
The error that returns is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\PROJECT\pdfs\converterpluspa.py", line 87, in <module>
matchtwo = soup.findall('<td class="fieldData">Case Status Not Available</TD>')
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

Answer 1

Line 87 includes an attempt to call the method findall of soup. soup was defined in line 65 where BeautifulSoup was called to parse the contents of a file. Since the error diagnostic says that soup is None this means that BeautifulSoup was unable to parse that file.